# yas
## English
### Interjection

yas
* (often African-American Vernacular, LGBTQ or valley girl, slang) Nonstandard spelling of yes.
** 1862, Various, The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862‎:'Oh! yas, I smokes; but I durned sight d'ruther chaw.'
** 1904 November, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], Cabbages and Kings, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 175:"Yas, yas!" they cried, with broader grins and many nods.
** 1913, Horace Annesley Vachell, Bunch Grass‎:It's nice, yas, and it's paid for.

#### Derived terms

* yas queen

### Pronoun

yas
* Nonstandard spelling of yous.

#### Derived terms

* yas'm

### Further reading

* "Where Does "YAAAS" Come From?" in Bustle

### Anagrams

* AYs, ays, say

## Aleut
### Pronunciation

* (Western) IPA: /ˈjas/

### Noun

yas
* (Western) reef (rocks at or near surface of water)

### References

* 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yās (“damage, loss; shame”). Compare, however, also Arabic يَأْس (yaʔs, “despair”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

yas (definite accusative yası, plural yaslar)
* mourning
    yas saxlamaq ― to mourn
* wake, funeral repast
    yas mərasimi ― wake ceremony

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “yas” in Obastan.com.

## Beaver
### Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *yəx̣s. Cognate with Tsuut'ina zas, Chipewyan yaθ, Ahtna yaas, Carrier yvθ, Sekani yas, Navajo yas.

### Noun

yas
* snow

### References

* Young, Robert W & William Morgan, Sr. The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, NM: 1987.

## Indonesian
### Noun

yas (plural yas-yas)
* hias

## Navajo
### Alternative forms

* zas (Eastern Navajo)

### Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *yəx̣s. Cognate with Tsuut'ina zas, Chipewyan yaθ, Beaver yas, Carrier yvθ, Sekani yas, Ahtna yaas.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jɑ̀s/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

yas
* (Western Navajo) snow

#### Derived terms

* yas ditłéʼé (“wet snow”)
* Yas Niłtʼees
* yaskááʼ

## Sekani
### Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *yəx̣s. Cognate with Tsuut'ina zas, Chipewyan yaθ, Beaver yas, Carrier yvθ, Navajo yas, Ahtna yaas.

### Noun

yas
* snow

### References

* Young, Robert W & William Morgan, Sr. The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, NM: 1987.

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʝas/ [ˈɟ͡ʝas]
* IPA: (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝas/ [ˈɟ͡ʝas]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃas/ [ˈʃas]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒas/ [ˈʒas]
* Rhymes: -as
* Syllabification: yas

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

yas m (plural yases)
* (Costa Rica) coyo avocado (Persea schiedeana) (the tree or its fruit)
    Synonyms: chucte, chinín, pahua, coyo, aguacamico, aguacate de mico, aguacate de monte

#### Further reading

* Persea schiedeana
* El yas - Persea schiedeana - Lauraceae - MundoForestal

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English jacks.

#### Noun

yas m (plural yases)
* (games) Alternative form of jacks

#### Further reading

* “yas”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
* DiPerú | Diccionario de peruanismos en línea

## Talysh
### Noun

yas
* mourning, grief

## Tat
### Noun

yas
* mourning, grief

## Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یاس (yâs), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yās (“loss, damage; shame”) (see there for cognates). The semantic development may have been influenced by unrelated Arabic يَأْس (yaʔs, “despair”), whence also the borrowing yeis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jɑs/

### Noun

yas (definite accusative yası, plural yaslar)
* mourning

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “yas”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu